Tài liệu Using Additional Ajax Libraries: Working with Adobe’s Spry Framework

Up to this point we have talked a lot about jQuery and how
you can use it and extend it with your own JavaScript. True,
jQuery is very powerful, but it is not the only Ajax library you can
use. In fact, there are loads of great libraries you can use. If you
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are a user of Adobe’s Dreamweaver then you can take advantage
of their Spry Ajax framework.
Spry is an open-source library that can be easily extended
in much the same way as jQuery. There is, however, some great
functionality built into the core framework that you can apply
directly to your web sites.
Spry can be downloaded from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/
spry/home.html. The files contain a core script and several
additional
scripts that extend the functionality of the core. Expand the downloaded
ZIP file and extract the files to your web site into a new root folder called
SpryAssets.
You are going to add to the “contactus.html” page. This time, you
are going to add content as follows to the first tab, “Who We Are,” to
allow users to see who is located at the company (Figure 5.8Proj).
1. The control you are going to create allows you to select the
person’s name and see additional information such as his or
her title, email, and phone number. Data change and come
from many sources. In this instance, the data are coming from
another web page. You can use both XML and HTML as data
sources within the Spry framework. In this example you are
going to use a web page for the source data.